The Politics of the Essay

"The Politics of the Essay is that rare scholarly work that provides both a history of this relatively new field and of its formal characteristics and inspires its readers to want to participate in the making of this history." -- SignsThe first in-depth study of the relationship between women and essays. Employing gender, race, class, and national identity as axes of analysis, this volume introduces new perspectives into what has been a largely apolitical discussion of the essay. Includes an original essay by Susan Griffin.

RUTH-ELLEN BOETCHER JOERES is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota and editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She is the author of Die Anf+ñnge der deutschen Frauenbewegung: Louise Otto-Peters and co-editor of several volumes, including German Women in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Social and Literary History, and Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. ELIZABETH MITTMAN is a postdoctoral fellow at Emory University. She is also the co-editor and co-translator of a forthcoming collection of early German Romantic texts.

Acknowledgments
Red Shoes	p. 1
An Introductory Essay	p. 12
From Novel to Essay: Gender and Revision in Florence Nightingale's "Cassandra"	p. 23
The Boundary-Crossing Essays of Carmen Martin Gaite	p. 41
Flora Tristan: The Joining of Essay, Journal, Autobiography	p. 57
Between the Lines: On the Essayistic Experiments of Helene Cixous in "The Laugh of the Medusa"	p. 73
Woman Taking Speculation into Her Own Hands	p. 87
Christa Wolf's Signature in and on the Essay: Woman, Science, and Authority	p. 95
Essay, Gender, and Mestizaje: Victoria Ocampo and Gabriela Mistral	p. 113
A Voice of One's Own: Implications of Impersonality in the Essays of Virginia Woolf and Alice Walker	p. 131
The Passionate Essay: Radical Feminist Essayists	p. 151
Latin American Women Essayists: "Intruders and Usurpers"	p. 172
"A Weaponry of Choice": Black American Women Writers and the Essay	p. 196
Terrorism and the Essay: The Case of Ulrike Meinhof	p. 209
Contributors	p. 225
Index	p. 227
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